MADONNA OF THE WASPS My neo-giallo novella is out as an ebook with a spanking new cover by S. L. Johnson (AKA the Queen of Everything including cover art). Madonna of the Wasps involves a cult, an ancient knife, some art students, and a woman who thinks she may have found a way to live forever….
Tag: horror
Surreal Noir: Ep16 New Fiction!
Episode Sixteen is now live! New fiction to celebrate #Noirvember and go out with a bang. Or maybe just a hum (you’ll have to listen to the story to figure that one out). Les grands transparents was inspired by a concept of André Breton’s. There are little nods that the cognoscenti will pick up on…
Review: The Substance (2024)
There isn’t a woman alive who has not pasted a shiny smiling face on her monster body at some point. Spoilers, sweetie… Peg and I had the benefit of an empty theatre to ourselves so we could comment to one another with impunity in the midst of things — like that absolutely brilliant Vertigo music…
Checking Proofs: Black Alibi & Leopard Man
In an email that looked surprisingly like a phishing attempt, I got the link to my proofs for the forthcoming collection on Cornell Woolrich. I get to jazz enthusiastically about Black Alibi, Leopard Man, Val Lewton and Ardel Wray so that’s fun. There’s not a whole lot of academic work on Woolrich (and some of…
PCA/ACA in April
The Easter Bunny usually brings a good egg: the PCAACA conference. Virtual again this year for safety’s sake, many of the usual crowd are gathering to bring you great discussions about the popular culture you love. Here’s my schedule including the much-anticipated round table with pals: I’m still digesting Archive 81 and need to check…
Ghosts at Xmas
As I haunt my home town in the mauve misty snow, I have no new ghost story for Fox Spirit which has been a tradition of recent years. Things are just too… 2021, I guess. What excuse will there be next year? So here’s an ebook of the trilogy of ghost stories written in past…
Song for a Saturday: Grow Me a Gown With Golden Down
A little noise for your Saturday: inspired by the 1966 Hammer film The Witches, which has been obsessing me lately for a number of reasons. Along with all the other things, all the other things. It may be turning up in the expected places, but also the unexpected places [makes finger down the nose gesture…
#PCAACA21 Virtual ‘Reality’ & Horror
Just about every year since…? 1995? 1996? I have headed off around Easter time to attend the Popular Culture Association National Conference — except last year it was cancelled and this year it was pushed back to June. Everything is off-kilter, eh? It’s a great conference: fun and informative, covering a wide range of topics…
Out Now: LOVE from @FoxSpiritBooks
LOVE edited by Chloë Yates Love. That many-splendoured thing. It can move mountains and make fools of us all, but what is it? Does it come courtesy of a cherub’s bow? Is it a battlefield? Endless? Crazy? Only available on a Friday? Well, the answer might be between these covers. Inside you’ll find stories from…
Punk Noir Mag: The Clown
I have a story up over at Punk Noir Magazine, ‘The Clown’; thanks as always to Mr B. I stumbled across a flash tale I had submitted somewhere, pulling the punch at the end as I thought it wouldn’t fly. They didn’t like it anyway. Lesson: do what you want and be liked for what…